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Recent years have seen rapid advances in the data-driven analysis of dynamical systems based on Koopman operator theory and related approaches. On the other hand, low-rank tensor product approximations -- in particular the tensor train (TT)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Feliks Nüske , Patrick Gelß , Stefan Klus , Cecilia Clementi

We develop a stochastic approximation framework for learning nonlinear operators between infinite-dimensional spaces utilizing general Mercer operator-valued kernels. Our framework encompasses two key classes: (i) compact kernels, which…

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We consider a problem of maximizing a monotone DR-submodular function under multiple order-consistent knapsack constraints on a distributive lattice. Since a distributive lattice is used to represent a dependency constraint, the problem can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Takanori Maehara , So Nakashima , Yutaro Yamaguchi

The sparse nonlinear programming (SNP) problem has wide applications in signal and image processing, machine learning, pattern recognition, finance and management, etc. However, the computational challenge posed by SNP has not yet been well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Chen Zhao , Naihua Xiu , Hou-Duo Qi , Ziyan Luo

We present an end-to-end framework for generating solutions to combinatorial optimization problems with unknown components using transformer-based sequence-to-sequence neural networks. Our framework learns directly from past solutions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Macarena Navarro , Willem-Jan van Hoeve , Karan Singh

Two main families of reinforcement learning algorithms, Q-learning and policy gradients, have recently been proven to be equivalent when using a softmax relaxation on one part, and an entropic regularization on the other. We relate this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Pierre H. Richemond , Brendan Maginnis

Top-k query processing finds a list of k results that have largest scores w.r.t the user given query, with the assumption that all the k results are independent to each other. In practice, some of the top-k results returned can be very…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Lu Qin , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Lijun Chang

Deep neural networks (NNs) encounter scalability limitations when confronted with a vast array of neurons, thereby constraining their achievable network depth. To address this challenge, we propose an integration of tensor networks (TN)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-08-20 Saeed S. Jahromi , Roman Orus

Though many compilation and runtime systems have been developed for DNNs in recent years, the focus has largely been on static DNNs. Dynamic DNNs, where tensor shapes and sizes and even the set of operators used are dependent upon the input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Wei Niu , Gagan Agrawal , Bin Ren

Identifying differential operators from data is essential for the mathematical modeling of complex physical and biological systems where massive datasets are available. These operators must be stable for accurate predictions for dynamics…

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The computation of rank ordering plays a fundamental role in cognitive tasks and offers a basic building block for computing arbitrary digital functions. Spiking neural networks have been demonstrated to be capable of identifying the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-12-02 Fabio Schittler Neves , Marc Timme

While the design of optimal peak-to-peak controllers/observers for linear systems is known to be a difficult problem, this problem becomes interestingly much easier in the context of interval observers because of the positive nature of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Corentin Briat , Mustafa Khammash

The complexity of deep neural networks (DNNs) makes them powerful but also makes them challenging to interpret, hindering their applicability in error-intolerant domains. Existing methods attempt to reason about the internal mechanism of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Winston Chen , William Stafford Noble , Yang Young Lu

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have proven to be powerful tools for interpreting neural networks by decomposing hidden representations into disentangled, interpretable features via sparsity constraints. However, conventional SAEs are…

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Machine learning pipelines often rely on optimization procedures to make discrete decisions (e.g., sorting, picking closest neighbors, or shortest paths). Although these discrete decisions are easily computed, they break the…

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Motion planning under dynamics constraints, i.e, kinodynamic planning, enables safe robot operation by generating dynamically feasible trajectories that the robot can accurately track. For high-DOF robots such as manipulators,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Thai Duong , Clayton W. Ramsey , Zachary Kingston , Wil Thomason , Lydia E. Kavraki

We show for several computational problems how classical greedy algorithms for special cases can be derived in a simple way from dynamic programs for the general case: interval scheduling (restricted to unit weights), knapsack (restricted…

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We adopt an operator-theoretic perspective to study convergence of linear fixed-point iterations and discrete- time linear systems. We mainly focus on the so-called Krasnoselskij-Mann iteration x(k+1) = ( 1 - \alpha(k) ) x(k) + \alpha(k) A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Giuseppe Belgioioso , Filippo Fabiani , Franco Blanchini , Sergio Grammatico

In this paper, we present two tensor network quantum-inspired algorithms to solve the knapsack and the shortest path problems, and enables to solve some of its variations. These methods provide an exact equation which returns the optimal…